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Chicks On Speed - 99 ¢ (03 *^ 99mb )
Appropriate to their arty, Eurotrash vibe, Munich native Kiki Moorse, New Yorker Melissa Logan, and Australian Alex Murray-Leslie met in 1997 at a bar near Munich's Art Academy.Soon after, they were releasing limited-edition, critically-acclaimed singles such as Smash Metal, which pitted the group against Patrick Pulsinger, DMX Krew, and DJ Hell (whose album Munich Machine they also appeared on), as well as the ironic, pseudo-house anthem Glamour Girl. Their live shows ranged from appearances at 2000's Love Parade festival to touring with Console and Super Collider to gigs at renovated mental hospitals. Mid-2000 saw the release of their debut album Will Save Us All!; later that year, the rarities collection The Re-Releases of the Un-Releases was issued by K Records in the U.S. Along with the release of several Will Save Us All! tracks as singles in 2000, Chicks on Speed stayed busy with the release of the Chix 52 EP -- an homage to the B-52's -- later that year. Along with crafting deconstructed, feminist-leaning synth pop, the group also runs Go Records, Stop Records, and Chicks on Speed Records; designs video and print graphics and art installations; and makes and sells avant-garde paper and leather . In 2002 they embarked on their first large-scale US tour as part of Larry Tee's Electroclash dates. In 2003, the We Don't Play Guitars single heralded the arrival of their next album , 99 Cents, it reaffirmed that the band is more of a smart electronic pop project than anything else: fashion, consumerism, and conventional notions of originality and authenticity are all questioned and played with in the group's intellectually mischievous way.
Chicks on Speed do this most overtly on the album's singles, such as the anti-rock of "We Don't Play Guitars," which nevertheless features a six-string solo and cameo from kindred spirit Peaches. The band borrows the Tom Tom Club's highbrow but inclusive dance-pop of "Wordy Rappinghood" and emphasizes its party vibe by inviting virtually every likeminded female electronic artist -- including Miss Kittin, Kevin Blechdom, Le Tigre, Adult.'s Nicola Kuperus, and the Tom Tom Club's own Tina Weymouth -- to sing on the track. Where Will Save Us All! was a blast of righteous electro-punk energy, this album sounds more like fighting the system from within, with a surprisingly pretty, polished pop side that borrows mainstream dance-pop and urban production techniques. The choppy, acoustic melancholia of "Coventry" conveys the isolation of modern life far better than a harangue about it would; likewise, "Culture Vulture" makes the most of Kiki's Nico-like vocals. An unusually melancholy undercurrent colors 99 Cents, particularly on the trophy-girlfriend lament "Love Life" and "Shick Shaving," a pretty, and pretty disturbing, Miss Kittin-sung track that mixes images of shaving and cutting. It's a far cry from the emphatic style of Will Save Us All! but it shows how willing Chicks on Speed are to challenge themselves as well as their listeners.
In 2004, their third album, Press The Spacebar was released. The album was a collaboration with the Spanish band The No-Heads. To date no singles have been issued from the album, though interestingly it includes a new version of Culture Vulture, a song from their previous LP release on 99 cents.The Chicks are currently finishing a new album, which is scheduled for release in 2007(didnt happen), with a 12" single release of ART RULES! featuring Douglas Gordon in November 2006. Anat Ben-David who has collaborated on the new album will become a proper member of Chicks on Speed for the new release project. Kiki Moorse, once founding member, has now departed CoS to pursue a career in DJing. She also has a new music project, called Bad French, with Andreas Reihse of Kreidler.
01 - Shooting From The Hip (4:39)
02 - We Don't Play Guitars (Voc. Peaches) (3:54)
03 - Wordy Rappinghood (6:26)
04 - Coventry (3:43)
05 - 99 ¢ (3:33)
06 - Sell Out (3:52)
07 - Culture Vulture (3:43)
08 - Universal Pussy Y (4:28)
09 - Love Life (4:14)
10 - Shick Shaving (Ft.Miss Kittin )(4:20)
11 - Fashion Rules! (4:24)
12 - Flame On (4:54)
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Dr. Elektroluv' sPills (^322mb)
Dr. Lektroluv (Stefaan Vandenberghe) first incarnation was T-Quest, his earliest musical influences go back as far as Kraftwerk, Fad Gadget, Nitzer Ebb or Liaisons Dangereuses. The short-lived but fierce New Beat era and the acid house period further sharpened his appetite for electronic dance music. In the early 90's as T-Quest he started out as a DJ on a local radio station with 'Behind The Beat', a two hours non-stop program with the latest and upcoming sounds from the underground.
At about the same time he started working in the Music Man record store and a couple of years later moved on to the A&R department of the Music Man label for which he created the instant-recognisable 'silver' outlook. Since 1994 Stefaan signed artists such as Secret Cinema, Cherry Bomb, Metro Dade, Sound Associates, Percy X, Steve Rachmad, Green Velvet, Steve Stoll an did compilations with Dave Clarke and Jeff Mills. He holds a residency at Kozzmozz, played in Belgian's most famous clubs as well as festivals (10 Days of Techno, I Love Techno). He travelled the world with his record bags, for his first studio production, Stefaan Vandenberghe joined hands with Frank De Wulf. 'Play' was released on R&S records as Frank De Wulf vs. T-Quest. His second release, a solo effort, first surfaced somewhere at the end of 1996 as a limited twelve-inch. Later on Stefaan produced an exclusive track ('Cakewalk') for the Kozzmozz compilation under the moniker of SubSurf.
He emerged at the beginning of the 21st century, as Dr. Elektroluv playing at the Body to Body parties at Culture Club in Ghent. He is known for his green mask and mixing using a telephone instead of headphones. He describes his style as : "Everything has an electronic feel, from italo to house and from electro to techno." Lektroluv regularly releases compilations (7 between 2002 and 2007) on the NEWS label, mixing classic electro-gems with some fresher releases.Although Dr. Lektroluv has become a giant within his native Belgium and The Netherlands he remains relatively unknown beyond despite receiving good reviews in the UK press in particular.
VA - The New Preskriptions Of Dr. Lektroluv (02 ^ 156mb)
01 - Crossover - Lucida Obscura
02 - Parallax Corporation, The - Fear
03 - Jimi Tenor - Take Me Baby
04 - Crème De Menthe - Plastique
05 - Hong Kong Counterfeit - Metal Disco (Legowelt vs. Orgue Electronique Mix)
06 - Bangkok Impact - Junge Dame Mit Freundliche Tel (Frisky Disko Mix)
07 - Japanese Telecom - Mounting Yoko
08 - Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force - Planet Rock
09 - Dexter - I Don't Care
10 - Drexciya - Funk Release Valve
11 - Dexter - Echopark
12 - Le Syndicat Electronique - Run
13 - Artist Unknown - Errorist
14 - Memory Boy - (There Is No) Electricity
15 - Ectomorph - Parallax View
16 - ADULT. - Hand To Phone
17 - Phoenecia - Odd Job (Adult's Compurhythm Version)
18 - Andreas Dorau & Die Marinas - Fred Vom Jupiter
VA - Infekted By Dr. Lektroluv (03 ^ 166mb)
21 - Sterac Electronics - Legacy Of A Lost World
22 - Jollymusic - Radio Jolly (The Parallax Corporation Heavyweight Remix)
23 - Legowelt - Chokolecktrik
24 - Japanese Telecom - Japanese Animation
25 - Crème De Menthe - We Are Living In The Night
26 - Monkeyshop - 'Barbara!!! Buy A Monkey!'
27 - Alden Tyrell - Love Explosion
28 - ADULT. - Nausea (Mega-Blend)
29 - Trans-X - Living On Video (Edit)
30 - D.I.E. - Out With The Old
31 - Little Computer People - Electro Pop
32 - Twinnie - Waiting For My Love
33 - Anthony Rother - Krieg
34 - New York City Survivors - The Game
35 - Depeche Mode - The Dead Of Night (Electronicat Remix)
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